Senators Call Out Meta's Zuckerberg for Enabling Child Sex Abuse Content
(Chaz Anon) During a remarkable Senate hearing Wednesday, Republican Senators wiped the floor with Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg, exposing how his company has acted woefully when it comes to child sexual abuse material and other harmful content on its platforms that has directly led to the deaths of children.
By the end of the hearing Zuckerberg was utterly humiliated, forced to stand and face the families of victims who have suffered because of his failures, and told that he should be sued into oblivion for gross dereliction of duty.
During the hearing titled ‘Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis’, Senator Ted Cruz essentially accused Zuckerberg of helping pedophiles gain access to child porn on his platforms.
“Every parent in America is terrified about the garbage that is directed at our kids,” Cruz told Zuckerberg, adding “the phones they have are portals to predators…and each of your companies could do a lot more to prevent it.”
Senator Ted Cruz wipes the floor with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who shows practically no remorse for ruining the lives of children and families. Full report here https://t.co/gTK7prtm3F pic.twitter.com/1ePnZTkvtr
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Referring to a recent Wall Street journal investigation, Cruz then noted “What was particularly concerning…was the degree to which Instagram’s own algorithm was promoting the discoverability of victims for pedophiles seeking child abuse material.”
“In other words, this material wasn’t just living on the dark corners of Instagram. Instagram was helping pedophiles find it by promoting graphic hashtags,” Cruz continued.
The Senator then displayed a warning screen that Instagram offers to users who search for such material, admitting that it may be child porn, and then offering them a link to “see results anyway.”
“Mr. Zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking?” a clearly angry Cruz proffered.
Zuckerberg tried to suggest that a second link on the screen offers resources for people to get help, “I understand ‘get resources,’” Cruz fired back, adding “In what sane universe is there a link to ‘see results anyway’?”
Zuckerberg claimed that the algorithm might get it wrong, so there is a need for the link to “see results anyway.”
Cruz repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg to commit to providing figures on how many times the warning window was offered and how many times “see results anyway” was clicked, but Zuckerberg said he had “no idea,” and refused to comply with the demand, only offering to “follow up” on the matter.
In a further exchange, Senator Josh Hawley asked Zuckerberg “who did you fire for this?”
